Thursday, 10 January 2008

ghosts

Leeds -Wakefield deserted and barren, Leeds twice that hell and more -A collision of the worst of times, the worst of hells -The Medieval, the Victorian, and the Concrete:The dark arches, black mists and broken windows of industrial decay, industrial murder, industrial hell -Dead city abandoned to the crows, the rain, and the Ripper.And today, this day:Friday 12 December 1980 -It looks no different than we remember, than we feared -Dead spectre from a woken nightmare -A past trapped in a future, here and now:Friday 12 December 1980 -Screaming in the wind -A bloody castle rising out of the bleeding rain, a tear in thelandscape -Leeds, the grim and concrete medieval:Dead city -The crows, the rain and the Ripper -The Ripper, King -The King of Leeds.